Miles Davis

a selective discography & gigography with links to audio and video1950s1960s1970s1980s
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1940s

“The greatest feeling I ever had in my life – with my clothes on – was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St. Louis, Missouri… I’ve come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music…but I’ve never quite got there. I’ve gotten close, but not all the way there. I’m always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play every day.”+++++– Miles’ autobiography

The Jazz Villa, St. Louis, Missouri, May or June 1963 setlistmp3 Juan-les-Pins, France, 26-8 July 1963 setlistmp3Miles Davis In Europe, Juan-les-Pins, 27 July 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival, California, 20 Sept 1963 youtubesetlistmp3Four and More and My Funny Valentine, Lincoln Center, NY, 12 Feb 1964
These records, with George Coleman on tenor, are superlative. Four and More seemed “the” jazz record to me as a teenager. Miles at his best.

Get Up With It (music from early-mid 70s)
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(A crazy, crazy track. A kind of extreme, as far out as Miles got. Stockhausen + James Brown. on/off. Miles on organ! Like bleach for the brain.)
– Maiysha (Part 1) youtube
(I’ve always liked this. Not quite like anything else. Happy, sunny, relaxed, lots of great moments.)